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James Gamble

This Jellyfish Swam The Earth’s Water Bodies Half A Billion Years Ago

A reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea. (Christian McCall via SWNS)

The oldest-ever jellyfish fossil from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered.

The free-swimming predatory jellyfish, named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, was discovered from fossil records extracted from the Burgess Shale – a famous fossil-bearing deposit in the Canadian Rockies.

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